Publications by authors named "L C Vaughan"
High-energy nuclear collisions create a quark-gluon plasma, whose initial condition and subsequent expansion vary from event to event, impacting the distribution of the eventwise average transverse momentum [P([p_{T}])]. Disentangling the contributions from fluctuations in the nuclear overlap size (geometrical component) and other sources at a fixed size (intrinsic component) remains a challenge. This problem is addressed by measuring the mean, variance, and skewness of P([p_{T}]) in ^{208}Pb+^{208}Pb and ^{129}Xe+^{129}Xe collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Multimorbidity is common in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), yet comorbidity patterns are not well documented.
Methods: The prevalence of 18 chronic conditions (6 cardiometabolic, 7 other somatic, 5 mental health) was obtained in patients with new-onset AF from 2013-2017 from a 27-county region and controls matched 1:1 on age, sex, and county of residence. For AF patients and controls separately, clustering of conditions and co-occurrence beyond chance was estimated (using the asymmetric Somers' D statistic), overall and for ages <65, 65-74, 75-84, and ≥85 years.
Background: Angiographic evidence of the anatomy of coronary arteries and the type of coronary artery lesions in women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are poorly documented.
Objectives: This study sought to determine the role of a history of HDP as a unique risk factor for early coronary artery disease (CAD) and type of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (ie, atherosclerotic vs myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries [MINOCA]) in women who underwent coronary angiography.
Methods: This study used a population-based cohort of parous female patients with incident CAD who underwent coronary angiography and age-matched control subjects.
Article Synopsis
- - The ATLAS experiment at the LHC conducted a search for long-lived particles (LLPs) using a large dataset (140 fb^{-1}) from proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV, focusing on LLPs with masses from 5 to 55 GeV that decay within the inner detector.
- - The study considered scenarios where LLPs are produced from exotic Higgs boson decays and models involving axionlike particles (ALPs).
- - No significant findings above expected background levels were detected, leading to the establishment of upper limits on various production rates involving the Higgs boson and the top quark related to LLPs and ALPs.